The free tool (available in both English Unit and Metric Unit versions), designed in collaboration with experts from a handful of other ports worldwide, forms part of the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI) designed to identify and promote “effective, sustainable practices and strategies for ports and harbours to improve air quality”. The WPCI Carbon Footprinting Guidance report can be found here.

Port of Los Angeles technicians expect the initiative will be used a planning tool that ports worldwide can use to compute the benefits of replacing or retrofitting equipment with systems or machines that run on sustainable power.

In related news, the Port of Long Beachhas announced a new installation at its Pier C, which uses Cavotec’s Alternative Maritime Power(AMP) solution to provide electricity to docking ships, allowing them to shut down secondary diesel engines and thus reducing harmful emissions. This is the fourth unit to be put in place at the port in an effort to comply with state regulations that require 50 per cent of containership visiting Californian ports to use shore power by 2014.

"Together with our industry partners we have shown the world that it is possible to move more cargo and reduce emissions at the same time," declared Susan E Anderson Wise, President of the Long Beach Board of Harbour Commissioners.

Sustainability initiatives undertaken by thePort of Los Angeles to operate more sustainably and create employment in and around the port are highlighted in a short film. The film includes an interview with Cavotec CEO, Ottonel Popesco, who describes how Cavotec and the port have worked together to introduce shore-to-ship electricity supply, Alternative Maritime Power, at the port.

Global engineering group, Cavotec is pleased to report another success for its automated mooring technology, MoorMaster™. Leading mining group, Fortescue Metals Group, has ordered 24 MoorMaster™ units for use at Port Hedland in Western Australia: a project that highlights how this innovative technology improves productivity and reduces infrastructure costs.

Cavotec’s innovative automated mooring solution MoorMaster™ was a key component in two significant awards this month. A 2011 Western Australia Engineering Excellence Award and Australia Bulk Handling Award 2011 for Best Practice in Occupational Health & Safety both went to Cavotec partners that rely on MoorMaster™ for the safe mooring of vessels.

Cavotec is delighted to hear that the Port of Gothenburg, one of the Group's long-term partners on shore power technologies for ships, has won the prestigious Energy Globe Awards 2011 for its shore power initiatives and their contribution to improving air quality in and around the Port. Cavotec and the Port of Gothenburg have worked together closely on shore power since the 1980s.